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Mensagens instantâneas para todos

rodrigohenrik — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:00:06 +0000

Conecte-se com todos os seus amigos. Meebo lhe permite conectar-se aos seus amigos em todas as grandes redes (AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber), em um único buddylist, diretamente do seu navegador. Incluir todos e bate-papo. É bem simpls, basta acessar o Meebo, criar um cadastro curto e rápido. Você pode usar no iPhone ou no iPod Touch.

IMPlus: iphone app of the day

Wayne Sutton — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:45:25 +0000

iphone app of the day is, IMPlus

I have mobile chat & aim chat both installed but I think implus is my favorite, why?

# 1 reason I like it is because it allows you to login to more than one service if you have more than one account with that service. Example I have two AIM accounts one for work and the other personal.

Plus implus isn't new to the mobile chat world, they have mobile chat apps for almost every mobile devices and OS.

A few screenshots below. What is your favorite iPhone chat / instant messenger app?

4 years from now 800M people will access their social networks over their cell phone

stumpelb — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:11:44 +0000

There's only one newsletter that I open every day: eMarketer's. Today they quote a series of different forecasts for the 'mobile social networking' space:

ABI Research (SEP 2008): More than 140 million mobile (paying!) subscribers will use social networks on their phones by 2013, generating over $410 million in subscription revenues. This forecast is lower than its previous estimates. In December 2006, they forecasted 174 million users by 2011.
Pyramid Research (FEB 2008): There will be 950 million (paying and non-paying) mobile social networking users by 2012.
Juniper Research (AUG 2007): The number of (paying and non-paying) mobile social networking users will rise to 600 million by 2012.
eMarketer (SEP 2008): Concludes that the trueth of the latter two sources must be in the middle, and predicts that more than 800 million registered site members (paying and non-paying) will use their mobile phones to access social networks by 2012:

I think these numbers are entirely realistic. I am already using Belysio to access my networks on Facebook, LinkedIn, Xing and MySpace - and I'll certainly use it to browse my other networks as soon as Belysio will facilitate that. Accessing my communities over my cell phone simply bridges the gap between sitting behind my laptop to "administrate" my contacts, and meeting or communicating with them in real life.

Verizon-Yahoo! Portal

Rakesh Raman — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:23:53 +0000

Verizon, Yahoo! Present Portal of Preference
Verizon Communications and Yahoo! have signed a multiyear agreement to provide an integrated, co-branded Verizon-Yahoo! portal as a preferred starting point for new Verizon broadband subscribers. It’ll be offered as the first portal choice option for all new subscribers to Verizon's FiOS Internet and high-speed Internet services. Users will get Yahoo! Search, and co-branded e-mail, Instant Messenger, and Toolbar applications. It also offers access to Verizon.net and other select Verizon and third-party sites…Full Article

Some social networkers don't know what social networking is

stumpelb — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:57:46 +0000

Marketing research company Synovate last Monday released the results of an international survey. In their press release they share one interesting chart, showing the Top 3 communities in 17 markets.

[caption id="attachment_37" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Top 3 communities in 17 markets (source: Synovate)"][/caption]

Other interesting findings:

Across the 17 markets surveyed, 42% of people know what online social networking is. The Dutch were most likely to know the term with 89% answering 'yes', followed by Japan at 71% and Americans with 70%.
Overall, 26% across the markets surveyed are members of social networking sites. This peaked with the Netherlands at 49%, United Arab Emirates (UAE) at 46%, Canada at 44% and the US at 40%.
Biggest concerns were lack of privacy (37%) closely followed by lack of security for children (32%). The Dutch were the most concerned about privacy at 54% and lack of security for children was the biggest worry for Americans with 62% of respondents nominating it.
85% of Japanese and German social networkers were uncomfortable handing out details, followed by 83% in Taiwan, 79% in Canada, 77% in Brazil and South Africa and 70% in Poland and the US.
Overall, 53% of social networkers notice site sponsors. Two thirds of site members notice advertisements for products. Thirty-one percent of social networkers notice interactive profile pages featuring brands.
Forty percent of people who engage in social networking agree that online communication can be just as meaningful as face-to-face communications. Almost half (46%) agree that it is easier to make friends online than in person. Thirty seven percent of all people from the UAE, 35% of South Africans and 29% of Taiwanese agreed that they had more friends online than they have in the 'real' world.